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Saints, Goddesses and Kings

Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900

by Susan Bayly

  • Paperback
  • 532 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.7 x 3.1 cm

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For historians and those interested in South Indian culture

Uncovers the interplay of religions in South Indian society

You will gain insights into faith and community evolution

This book explores the rich inter-religious dynamics of South India between 1700-1900.

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South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. Susan Bayly shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. Saints, Goddesses and Kings thus illumines not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and, indeed, colonial societies in general.

  • Author

    Susan Bayly

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    April 2004

  • Weight

    672g

  • Page Count

    532

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.7 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521891035

  • ISBN-10

    0521891035

  • Eden Code

    1151757

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